phpBB vs YaBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
phpBB · YaBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
0
Open Page Rank 8+
31
0
Open Page Rank 7+
101
0
Open Page Rank 6+
162
0
Open Page Rank 5+
262
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
phpBB · YaBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
1,630
4
United States
1,626
8
France
1,308
0
United Kingdom
1,151
2
Poland
1,112
0
Russia
1,067
3
Spain
905
0
Italy
872
0
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | phpBB | YaBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 137 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 750 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.